the powerful play goes on and you will contribute a verse

by Seth Mandel

In 2015, someone found a remarkable item at a flea market in Paris: a nitrate print of a 1924 silent Austrian film, The City Without Jews. The famous film, a screen adaptation of Hugo Bettauer’s book of the same name, was thought to be lost forever. Bettauer was an Austrian writer whose story is one of haunting prophecy. He foresaw the rise of Nazism and the bleak future for Europe’s Jews, and wrote a satirical novel about his beloved Vienna. In the book, anti-Jewish agitation leads to the deportation of the entire city’s Jewish population. But soon, the residents regret the economic calamity they have brought on themselves by de-Judaizing their city, and demand starts to grow to bring all the Jews back.

Bettauer was a fairly well-known writer, but it was the film adaptation of his book that really caused a stir. “His private address was published and in the newspapers, it was explicitly said that such a person shouldn’t be part of society,” the head of collections at Filmarchiv Austria told the BBC when the film was restored.

Bettauer was murdered by Nazi supporters a year later. The chilling scenes of mass deportation of Jews would eventually be Europe’s reality.

these are the best cards on the planet and no one can tell me otherwise

(also various smart devices have a bad habit of being "energy vampires" so if you are worried about your power bill, try unplugging those when you're out)

Heat generation/mitigation takes the most power, and given you're not normally fucking with your thermostat midday outside of an emergency, it breaks no shabbat customs to just leave it on to do its thing. Because that is what you (and every non Jew) will be doing anyway.

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That they call all israelis colonizers.

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

so there's this old cartoonist i like, WK Haselden right? bit of a born curmudgeon, if you've ever seen those old vintage comics that are like "damn these modern women things used to be better in the 80s! the 1880s that is!!!" thats usually a haselden, maud of the 80s vs gladys of today etc

im forever FASCINATED at all the slice o life satire cartoons he does bc there's like, the regular shit to be grumpy (flappers driving cars, ladies hats are too big etc) about but there's also comics of fads that i could not BEGIN to fathom what it woulda been like to live through them through the eyes of this one dude like

?? was there a live meat/game meat trend in 1906??

this one's captioned "bull fighting up to date" like ????? was there a safety craze amongst bullfighters in '06???

i... i guess this one's mocking vaudeville??? like variety acts where you do a bunch of wild bullshit whilst playing an instrument perhaps?? tf was up in 1921??

man i didnt realize ping pong was such a thing of contention in..... 1922??

what the fuck was happening with elopement this year:

bitch you live like this??? 1915 edition. i do like that egg fellow in the corner though

man can't believe we've been making the pride and prejudice and zombies joke this whole time, this one's called "why not a crook drama harlequinade"

yknow you're right they SHOULD breed horses like harvestmen what were we thinking. not sure whats happening with that milk diet tho.